The Irish poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter
In the last while, some of my new poems have appeared in, or been accepted for, the following: The Watchful Heart: A New Generation of Irish Poets (Salmon anthology, Spring 2009), Literary Ways 2: Greece-Ireland, The Fifteen Project, The Toronto Quarterly, nthposition, Gargoyle, The Raintown Review.
My review of Richard Matheson’s book, ‘I Am Legend’ is up at One Book here: http://garysmailes.typepad.com/onebook/2008/09/i-am-legend.html. It’s accompanied by clips from the film versions that have been made so far. None of these has captured the story of the book without compromise, which is a shame, but is perhaps understandable given Hollywood’s reluctance to do [...]